Cutting implement.



PATENTED SEPT. 19, 1905.

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HERMAN FREDERICK NEHR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO BENZIGERBROTHERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUTTING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1905.

. Application filed February 11, 1905. gerial No. 245,243.

To [LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN FREDERICK NEHR, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, inthe county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Cutting Implement, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a device especially adaptedfor cutting what is known in religious services as the host? and to soconstruct the device that the cutting element, which is in the form of aring, can be produced at a minimum of cost, thus enabling it to beentirely dispensed with when dulled and substituted by others, and,further, to provide a holder for the cutting element which will besimple, durable, and of such construction that the cutter can be quicklyand conveniently introduced therein and held in position for use andwherein the cutter when not needed can be placed in the holder with thecutting edge innermost, thereby protecting such edge and maintaining itin a cleanly condition.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete device. Fig. 2 is avertical section through the body of the holder and a' portion of thehandle and also a vertical section through the cutting-ring, which is inposition for operation; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through thecutting-ring and a portion of the holder, showing the cutting-ring inreversed or protected position in the holder.

The device consists, primarily, of a holder A and a cutter B, which isremovable from and is reversible in the holder. The holder A comprises abody 10 and a handle 11. The body is made circular and is given adownward taper, being of smallest diameter at its bottom, and said bodyis provided with a vertical slot or cut 12 and outwardly-extending ears13 at each side of the same, through which cars a set-screw 13 ispassed, so that the ends of the body may be drawn together or held apartas far as desired to decrease or increase the diameter of the body. Inthe further construction of the body 10 an annular recess 14 is made inits inner face at its lower edge, and opposing sockets 15 are producedupon its outer side surface, which sockets 15 receive the ends of thehandle 11. The handle 11 is secured to the body 10 by means of screws 16or their equivalents, and by thus constructing the holder in two partsit can be more readily and economically produced than when made in onepiece.

The cutter B is in the form of a ringhaving a straight inner face; butat the outer face of the ring it is beveled from a point from itscircumferential center inward and downward, as is shown at 17 in thedrawings, in order to produce a cutting edge 18.

In operation the body 10 is adjusted so that the ring cutter B can beconveniently slipped into the recess 14 from the bottom of the holderand so that it will have sufficient frictional engagement with the saidbody to remain in position, as in use the upper edge of the cutting-ringhas firm bearing against the upper wall of the recess 14. The cuttingedge 18 of the cutting-ring when the ring is in position in the holder10 extends down below the lower edge of the body 10 of the holder, asshown in Figs. 1 and 2. When the cutting-ring is not required for use,it is removed and reversed, bringing the cutting edge 18 upward, and isthus introduced into the holder, occupying the position shown in Fig. 3,and

when the ring is in the reversed position just described its cuttingedge is thoroughly protected, and the body serves in a great measure tokeep the cutting edge clean.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. As an improved article of manufacture, ahost-cutter, comprising a ring-likebody having a transverse cut thereinextending through its upper and lower edges, and an annular interiorrecess at its lower edge, a handle for the body, adapted to extendbeyond its upper edge, adjusting means at the cut portion of the body,adapted to extend beyond its upper edge, and a ring cutter removably andreversibly located in the said recessed portion of said body.

2. A host-cutter, comprisinga holder,which holder consists of aring-like tapering body having a transverse cut therein, ears at eachside of the cut, set-screws passing through the said ears and opposingexterior sockets, a handle secured in the said sockets, and a ringoutter introduced in the bottom portion of the body and havingfrictional engagement With I the said body.

cured in said sockets, and a ring cutter fitted to the recess in thebody of the holder, the

ring cutter being reversible in the said body, 5

for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HERMAN FREDERICK NEHR.

Witnesses:

JOHN T. FINN, WI LIAM L. CONNOR.

